Peace Activist Traveled To Pakistan To Protest Drone Strikes

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published January 4, 2013 at 1:00 PM EST

An American drone strike Thursday in Pakistan reportedly killed a militant commander who had directed attacks on U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. military for several years has waged a campaign of drone attacks in Pakistan. Recently, a peace activist from Northampton Massachusetts, Paki Wieland traveled to Pakistan, and the region of Waziristan, where most of the drone strikes occur, to protest American policy. She spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

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